Australia wicket-keeper Matthew Wade said India were a lot like a 'caged lion' and it was expected from them to come back harder after their defeat in the first Test match in Pune. Wade reckoned that the change from the first to the second Test was probably the initial shock as the hosts came back s

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has cleared things out to the International Cricket Council (ICC) by dismissing match referee Chris Broad’s report that the pitch in Pune for the first Test between India and Australia was poor. Broad declared the dry deck prepared for the first Te

South Africa captain Faf du Plessis said on Sunday he was surprised no one had been charged by the ICC after the ugly spat which blighted the Australia-India Test series. “I was, yes. Purely from the reason of what I went through in Australia for something I feel was a lot smaller, so (am) su

R Ashwin has dismissed him three out of four times in the ongoing series between India and Australia, but explosive opening batsman David Warner said on Saturday that he will not stop him from attacking the off-spinner in the next two Tests. The southpaw said he will not back down from playing his s

Former Australia captain Michael Clarke said on Friday that Australia will miss Mitchell Starc in the last two Test matches of the ongoing series against India. Starc, who has been ruled out of the remainder of the Test series due to a fractured foot, had a big impact in the first two Test matches o

Eoin Morgan played a captain's knock to help England win the first of the three One-Day Internationals (ODI) against the West Indies at St. John's on Friday. Morgan's 10th century provided the batting foundation while seamers Liam Plunkett and Chris Woakes took four wickets each as England defeated

Fans who turned up to watch a MS Dhoni special returned disappointed even as Jharkhand cruised to a comfortable Seven Wicket win over services for their second victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Tuesday. Chasing a stiff 277, Jharkhand did not require services of their captain as Saurabh T

Australia skipper Steve Smith will replace MS Dhoni as captain of Rising Pune Supergiants in this year's Indian Premier League. Dhoni, who stepped down as India's limited-overs captain in January, led the now-suspended Chennai franchise to Twenty20 league title victories in 2010 and 2011. Pune

India‘s skipper, Virat Kohli, has again managed to break the news despite the hullabaloo surrounding the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2017 auction. With all the 8 teams battling it out for top players in he bidding-war to bolster their chances in IPL 2017, Kohli’s magnanimous deal with Puma h

South Africa defeated New Zealand by 78 runs Friday in a one-off Twenty20 international at Auckland's Eden Park. Spinner Imran Tahir took five for 24 as the Proteas skittled New Zealand for 107 after batting first and scoring 185 for six in their 20 overs. Earlier, a half century from big-hitt

Chamara Kapugedera smashed a boundary off the last ball to secure a thrilling five-wicket victory for Sri Lanka against Australia in the first Twenty20 Internationals on Friday. Needing one run off the last ball, Kapugedera drove the fuller delivery from Andrew Tye through cover to seal the match

A good fast bowler needs a good captain and India speedster Umesh Yadav is thankful to Virat Kohli for letting him be his own man while devising strategy to get batsmen out. “Virat is a bowler’s captain. He is someone who would throw the ball at you and tell you to set your own field. He asks me

India A bowlers were largely ineffective, allowing Steve Smith and senior batsman Shaun Marsh to strike comfortable hundreds as Australia started their Test tour in impressive fashion in the three-day warm-up game, in Mumbai on Friday. Riding on the two batsmen’s centuries before both were retire

IPL franchise Gujarat Lions on Friday appointed former Indian middle-order batsman Mohammad Kaif as its assistant coach for the upcoming season starting April 5. Speaking on appointment, Keshav Bansal, Director, Intex Technologies and Owner, Gujarat Lions said: “Kaif is a great resource for our t

In a historic first, the BCCI has included five Afghanistan cricketers including hard-hitting wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Shahzad, whose pyrotechnics had grabbed eyeballs during the last edition of World T20 in India, in the IPL 2017 auction pool. The others are, batsman Asghar Stanikzhai, pac

Ready to wait for his turn to debut in Test cricket, India A skipper Hardik Pandya said the warm-up game against Australia on Friday would be a great opportunity for fringe players to impress the selectors ahead of the four-Test series. "It will be good opportunity for all of us, specially me to

Glenn Maxwell is a curious case. Not many rate him as a Test cricketer. Neither did he do anything special to be rated one. In limited-overs he bears the tag of ‘invincibility’ but yet manages to get dropped. He is a crowd-puller. He has a massive fan-following as well as has a set of detractors. It

NEW DELHI: A few nations are making a big mistake by trying to take advantage of the current mess that Indian Cricket Board is in, warned former captain Ravi Shastri, who also advised the BCCI to demand every penny it deserves from the ICC for being the biggest revenue generator. Shastri, who ser